Sony MDRE829V Earphones

Product Description

Technical DataAudio Output / Sound Output ModeStereoTechnical DataAudio Output / Response BandwidthHz12 - 22000Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Weightg6Technical DataAudio Output / Connectivity TechnologyWiredTechnical DataHeader / Product LineSony MDRTechnical DataHeader / ModelE829VTechnical DataHeader / ManufacturerSonyTechnical DataHeader / Packaged Quantity1Technical DataRemote Control / TypeNoneTechnical DataAudio Output / Product TypeHeadphonesTechnical DataAudio Output / Headphones Form FactorEar-budTechnical DataAudio System / TypeHeadphonesTechnical DataAudio System / Recommended UsePortable audio systemTechnical DataAudio Output / Headphones TypeBinaural

Customer Reviews:

good but not brilliant.......2007-11-15

ok, this is not a top of the range earphone, but it does give a decent sound quality. it tends to look poorly built, but so far I have not had any problems with it.
it is not sound isolating, which is not very good, because when you are listening to music, you will still everything around you, unless you put it on full volume.
the volume control button seemed useless to me, and a bit annoying cause if your earphones are in your pocked or something, it might turns it down, so everytime you gotta check to see if it is on high.
Not bad for earphones, they do the job required, the sound quality is OK, but my old Philips did a lot better job, for almost the same price.
if you want very good earphones, invest a bit more and get a better one. if you want it for not-so-regular use, then this should be good.

Good value earphones with a short life.......2007-09-26

I'm now on my second pair of these earphones and I am having the same problems that I had with the first pair; the sound quality has slowly degraded and the left earphone has become distinctly quieter than the right. When using these earphones on my PC I have to adjust the sound balance between left and right to compensate for the quietness of the left earphone. Unfortunatly I cannot do this on my PSP (which is what I mainly use these earphones for) so I have to put up with it.

The fact that I have experienced this same problem in 2 pairs tells me that the quality of these earphones isn't that great. I treat them quite well so I don't think the damage to them is my fault (not completely, anyway).

With that said, while they last they are a nice pair of earphones, I'm not an expert on them but they do me fine and I've never had any quarrels with them til they start to break. The volume boost is nice as I use a PSP to play my music on the bus daily, PSP's are pretty quiet even through earphones, especially on a bus so with the extra volume I can compensate for the quietness of my PSP.

Overall an OK pair of earphones, but if you want them to last you're going to have to keep them in perfect condition.

Durable.......2007-01-26

[..]There are possibly the toughest headphones created by mankind. The sound quality is still good, but not perfect. I bought them when they were new stuff, so they cost me £[..], and i would happily pay that much again for them, so any cheaper is a super bargain.

Good 'phones but tend to have a "shelf-life".......2006-11-28

I've had these earphones for over a year. They've impressed with their strong bass reproduction, together with their clear (but not bright) treble range.

Other reviewers have suffered from various cable-shredding and connection problems. Whilst I haven't encountered these, the 'phones are now distinctly less clear than they were when new, leading me to suspect they have a natural "shelf-life" from wear-and-tear, after which they need replacing.

Tried Sennheiser's CX300's which were just ok and nothing more, but became faulty almost immediately (actually a relief), so I think I'll invest in another pair of Sonys again (the MDR E818's). Can't really go wrong with Amazon or Sony, especially at these prices.

ok....just ok.......2006-10-24

i use these with a sony mp3 player and use the sound EQ on that to tweak the bass, midrange and trebles to give the best sound quality. once this is done the sound quality is good.

however, big however, as i have found with most sony earphones in this price range, they are cheaply made. i listen to music every day on my mp3 to and from college and after about 3 months the left ear channel started to crackle. i will hazard a guess and say that this is due to poor wire quality or the fact there is no gold plated jack on these earphones.

i would recommend spending slightly more money to buy earphones with a gold plated jack, and being as sony earphones seem to be gaining a reputation for poor wiring, not a sony pair either!

happy shopping!

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Sony MDRE829V Earphones

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Earphones | Speakers & Headphones | Portable Sound & Vision | Categories | Electronics & Photo

Snakehead (Alex Rider)

ASIN: B00005T3RC

Product Description

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Product Description

SONY CFDE100L-Super-compact CD radio cassette player, designed to fit into the smallest of spaces.

Customer Reviews:

For Small But Not Narrow Spaces.......2006-07-16

This player was bought for the kitchen, so sound quality - within reason - was not a priority. It is sold as a compact model, so as compactness was an issue it was chosen.

The build quality is perfectly good for the money and the range of features fit for purpose. The sound quality is reasonable, if a bit top-heavy and lacking in subtlety. Both CD and cassette playback are OK. The FM tuner is OK, but locally Radio Three is a little weak and it can't receive in stereo without high levels of background noise. It is nice to note that it retains Long Wave, something vanishing from cheaper models of this type.

So why only three stars? It does everything well enough except the one thing it is sold on - space. The player is certainly smaller than many other similar players. But the AC/Mains lead supplied sticks out of the back and is so large it needs an extra 8-10 cm of space on a shelf, thus ruining the units compactness. If the lead had come out of one end it would have been capable of going into narrower spaces.

So overall, for the money it is reasonable value and providing you don't listen too closely, it makes a happy sound. But allow some space wherever you put it.

Rather bright for my taste but my 10 year old son loves it.......2006-04-05

My son wanted a portable boom box for his 10th birthday. He has a CD collection, of things like School Disco and Rock Legends compilations, rather than cassettes. I was attracted to this player as the Amazon listing said it played MP3's - burned onto CD's I assumed - but actually it doesn't play MP3s at all - it's commercial CDs or CDR and CDRW audio recordings only. There is a tape player that can record from the CD or analogue radio but sadly there's no inbuilt microphone for fun voice recordings. Sound from the tape player is fine on tapes recorded from my HIFI system (naturally there's no Dolby B/C decoder and its Type I normal tapes only). The radio works fairly well and is LW, MW and FM.

My son really likes this good looking player, particularly the natty simple but effective remote control [not the same as the larger remote now shown by Amazon in their stock photo] - although very meanly, Sony didn't provide the 2 AAA batteries we needed to use it. The player itself can be run on six R14 (size C) batteries, which would further increase it's very weighty feel to a wapping 3.1 kg. These batteries aren't supplied either, but in this case you have the mains lead. On alkaline batteries Sony say the unit will playback CD's for 7 hours and tapes for 15 hours (probably optimistic). The main units battery cover is easy to remove as well, so rechargeable batteries wouldn't be a problem, other than most chargers only hold four batteries per go. There's no lines in for recording or replay either - so you can't use the system as active speakers for your MP3 player, another missed opportunity. You almost certainly can't use a Sony CP-A9 car adapter kit either as the cassette door is very tight fitting. The unit is also quite large really for a system touted as 'super compact', having a footprint of 400 cm x 250 cm deep (with the mains lead inserted).

Controls for the CD and radio are 'electronic' and have a positive if slightly tacky feel. The cassette tape controls are the very old fashioned heavy clunky push mechanical type, but they feel fine in use. Solenoid ones would have been much nicer though, and would have allowed the remote control to control the tape functions - it can't, other than switch to CD or radio with the tape still playing. The tape has auto-stop on play/fastwind plus CD record synch, but no auto-reverse. The remote works fully only with the radio, CD and volume. CD and tape eject is a slick damped affair, although the CD load mechanism is rather over complicated.

Sound wise the player is a disappointment to me as it is very bright sounding, even through my old ears. Also annoyingly there is no equalisation at all - a series of preset ones like on MP3 players really should have been provided, as there is a reasonable, but annoyingly not backlit, LCD display suitable for a menu system. You do have the 'Mega Bass' button which does add a more pleasant weight to the sound, although I would have still liked to have been able to reduce the treble. The unit goes very loud, although this exaggerates the treble as well as the base. Being bright, the sound is also quite detailed though. The headphone socket works well and probably suites cheaper MP3 type player headphones around £30 that have good midrange but a more limited treble. The otherwise awful Sony MDR-V300 headphones that are all bass and no treble don't sound that bad with the unit. However my son (who can no doubt hear far further up the treble region than me) thinks the sound via speakers and headphones is great and he is very happy with the system. I told him he could send it back - but no, he is delighted with it. So although I don't really feel I could fully recommend the unit (largely due to the lack of any equalisation control outside the Mega Bass and it's rather Spartan features), it obviously suites some tastes, and I have to admit it looks good. We paid £79 from Amazon, although if the price has dropped it makes it better value.

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